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Old January 10th, 2005, 06:32 PM
WILLIAM
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Default Table design

I have an excel sheet with the following fields, and how
the fields are populated, I use to track my offsite backup
tape storage, and I want to move it to a database:

Date of Backup (short date, 1/5/2005, manually entered)

Tape Drive (Drop down list of two choices)

S/N (A number field 7 digits long, manually entered)

Media ID (Four alph-numeric characters manually entered)

Media Pool (Drop down list of 9 choices)

Sequence (Drop down list for tape sequences, ie 1, 1-2, 1-
3, 1-4...)

Tape Name (Free text..could be anything)

Bin (Drop down list of bin names, WEEK1 MON, WEEK1 TUE,
WEEK1 WED.....all the way down to WEEK4 FRI. It's a long
list with a lot of repeating in the names, ie week1 five
times, week2 five times...mon four times, tue four
times...)

Date sent (short date, 1/5/2005, manually entered)

I've created a database, if you want to call it that, with
one table. It's a glorified excel sheet with a real
pretty form to enter the data. I designed it around that
form actually.

I received a little help and got the idea I need at least
3 tables, one for the bins, one for the tapes, and one for
the offsite transport. I'm thinking I probably need one
for the backups too (to store the dates at least) but i'm
stuck, I don't know how these tables should relate.

ANyone want to tackle this? Or am I asking for a bit too
much help here...?

Thanks so much!

 




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